Iryna O. Zhuravel graduated from Kharkiv Pharmaceutical Institute with honours in 1985 and started working as a laboratory assistant, later – an assistant of the Pharmacognosy Department. She defended her thesis “Phenolic compounds of buckwheat pericarp and their analogues’ synthesis” for the Candidate of Sciences degree in 1991. From 1994 she worked as an associate professor of the Pharmacognosy Department, and since 2004 – as an associate professor of the Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds. In 2011 she defended her thesis “A pharmacognostic study of plants from Zingiberaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asteraceae, Lythraceae, Urticaceae families and creation of remedies on their basis” for the Doctor of Sciences degree. Since 2012 Iryna O. Zhuravel has been working as a professor of the Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds.

Iryna O. Zhuravel was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, a Certificate of Appreciation of Kyiv District Council of Kharkiv, a Certificate of Appreciation of the National University of Pharmacy.

Scientific school:

Dissertations performed under the supervision of Professor Iryna O. Zhuravel

Theses for the Doctor of Sciences degree:

Nadiia Ye. Burda “Scientific approaches to the creation and standardization of urological remedies of natural origin”